Monday, April 18, 2016

It is an ongoing tragedy that the left continues to promote
a false narrative about Clarence Thomas and his confirmation from all those
years ago. The most recent example is
the HBO movie Confirmation. The
extremes the left will go to are so ridiculous that they are even making a hero
out of women who was fired for using a “homophobic slur.” Some details
on the “movie’s other woman,” Angela Wright:

Wright's credibility problems
began with her checkered job history. She had been fired from her first job in
Washington — working for Democratic Congressman Charlie Rose — after she
"walked off the job because [she] got angry." After a short stint at
the Republican National Committee, where she also chalked up a questionable
performance record, Wright went to work as a political appointee in the State
Department's Agency for International Development (USAID). She again performed
poorly. When her supervisor, Kate Semerad, told her that she would be fired if
her work did not improve, Wright resigned and made baseless racism allegations
against Semerad.

When Semerad later went before
the Senate to be confirmed for a senior administration position, Wright made an
attempt at revenge. She took her old allegations to the committee considering
Semerad's nomination. The committee launched an inquiry but ultimately rejected
the allegations as unfounded and then confirmed Semerad in her new post. Wright
then moved to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under then-chairman
Clarence Thomas, where she spent only one year, turning in another spotty
performance record before being summarily dismissed by Thomas for referring to
a colleague as a "faggot."

. . . Jay Morris, Kate
Semerad's former boss at USAID, made a statement to the Senate Judiciary
Committee expressing similar concerns about Wright's vindictiveness: "I am
struck by the startling parallels between what Mrs. Wright did [to Semerad] and
what she is doing now. She vowed vengeance on a former supervisor for dismissal
on the basis of incompetence. ... The entire process suggested a last-ditch
attempt to stop the advancement of someone she resented."

That the producers of
"Confirmation" would lionize a woman who was fired for making a
homophobic slur is troubling, and shows you what Hollywood will do when it
values sensation over truth.

Of course the lionization of Wright in the movie is just
one of the many problems, especially those involving its star character, Anita
Hill played by Kerry Washington. Mollie
Hemingway details more of the issues in her article that is well worth reading. A few highlights:

The movie ignored how
dramatically Hill’s testimony changed over the course of Thomas’ confirmation
hearings, as well as her claim that FBI agents had told her that was okay. The
FBI agents said they never told her that.

It didn’t mention that Hill
claimed she followed Thomas from one job to another because she feared losing
her job. In fact, she was a career employee in the federal government, known to
her to be an incredibly secure job.

The movie suggests that the
many phone calls she made to Thomas over the years after they ceased being
colleagues were just professional, despite evidence, such as a note from a
secretary recounting Hill’s purpose in calling as, “Just called to say hello.
Sorry she didn’t get to see you last week.”

The media and progressives
never hid their belief that Thomas, a black man with views they don’t think
black men should be allowed to have, is dangerous. Whether they even believed
Hill’s claims is uncertain. What is certain is that they have used those
discredited claims in their campaign to defame the man. It would simply be sad
if it weren’t so damaging.

Liberals and their media allies will go to any length to attack
Clarence Thomas; Confirmation is just
the latest sad example.